Below is a description of each variable included in Lupu-Selios-Warner-GSreplication.csv.

1. "country" (character): country name

2. "year" (integer): year

3. "cdf_cong_40_rep" (numeric): congruence as calculated by Golder and Stramski (2010), using CDF overlap.

4. "emd_educit" (numeric): congruence measured using the EMD, for educated citizens only.

5. "emd_allcit" (numeric): congruence measured using the EMD, for all citizens.

6. "majoritarian_gs" (integer): an indicator variable for majoritarianism, as coded by Golder and Stramski (2010).

7. "majoritarian_bg" (integer): an indicator variable for majoritarianism, as coded by Bormann and Golder (2013).

8. "majoritarian_dpi" (integer): an indicator variable for majoritarianism, as coded by DPI.

9. "disproportionality_gs" (numeric): disproportionality as coded by Golder and Stramski (2010).

10. "disproportionality_gan" (numeric): disproportionality as coded by Gandrud (2015).

10. "polity2" (integer): Polity score.

11. "parliamentary_dpi" (integer): an indicator variable for parliamentarism, as coded by DPI.

12. "parliamentary_bg" (integer): an indicator for parliamentarism, as coded by Bormann and Golder (2013). We coded a country as parliamentary if B+G's "regime" variable equals zero or one.

13. "parliamentary_bg_alt" (integer): an indicator for parliamentarism, as coded by Bormann and Golder (2013). For this variable, we coded a country as parliamentary if B+G's "regime" variable equals zero. (That is, this coding treats "semi-presidential" democracies as presidential, not parliamentary.)